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The Alternative Technologies … “Alphabet Soup”
Common format for exchanging raster (bitmapped) images between application programs. The equivalent of a photographic image of the page usually produced through scanning. May also be identifying metadata attached to the image, but the text appearing in the image is not available for searching.
Word processing or publishing form in which people generally produce documents or data (MS-Word, WordPerfect, excel, etc.)
Proprietary print format intended to reproduce documents as originally composed. Requires the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader to view, print and search PDF documents. Difficult to view on-screen.
Standard Generalized Markup Language, an internationally agreed standard for information representation. Provides an architecture for defining document tag sets for a wide variety of applications. The tag sets allow the appearance and text to be separated and reformatted for different uses.
Hypertext Markup Language is the set of "markup" tags, loosely modeled on SGML, and specifically intended to support files for display on the WWW. This markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's text and images.
Extensible Markup Language, is a streamlined version of SGML, which makes it possible to use and display information in different ways by defining its structure and elements.